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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696-1770)

Lot 308
16.10.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1470322
Lot 308 | GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696-1770)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696-1770)
Time revealing Truth
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on paper
39 x 26,3 cm. (15 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)




Provenance

Marqués de Valverde de la Sierra, Madrid.
Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17th Marqués of Cerralbo (1845-1922), Madrid.
Maud Alice Cunard, Lady Cunard (1872-1948), London.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, Autumn 1934, no. 76 (ill.)).
Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow (1883-1964), London.
Dr Francis Springell (1898-1974) and Mrs Springell, Portinscale, Cumberland; Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1986, lot 80.
Sotheby's, New York, 8 January 1991, lot 109.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.



Exhibited

Madrid, Exposicion de Dibujos 1750 a 1860, 1922, no. 529 (ill.).
London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, 1959, no. 31 (ill.).
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Dr and Mrs Francis Springell, 1965, no. 61.
Venice, Fondazione Cini, Disegni veneti di collezioni inglesi, 1980, no. 79 (ill.).
Greenwich, National Maritime Museum, The Story of Time, 1999, no. 210 (ill.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers - Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, 1999, pp. 16-17 (ill.) & pp. 86-87.
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